NEWTOWN NEUROTICS - Beggars Can Be Choosers LP synth the duo’s short but sweet

the duo’s short but sweet resume includes a much-heralded self-released seven-inch and a couple cassette outings

producing an unusual brand of off-kilter post-punk against a backdrop of Dadaist aesthetics

unshifting constant is Cisneros' penchant for mystical

Although retaining the same recording engineer and studio (inner ear) as the last two albums

NEWTOWN NEUROTICS - Beggars Can Be Choosers LP synth the duo’s short but sweetIncludes poster insert. Highly recommended. The first album by seminal political power punk trio Newtown Neurotics, 'Beggars Can Be Choosers', hit no. 6 in the UK independent charts in 1983. Formed in 1979 by vocalist and guitarist Steve Drewett, whose socialist flavoured lyrics never overbearing have been grouped with those of Easterhouse, Billy Bragg or the Housemartins. The Neurotics sounded like a synthesis of everything cool in the first wave of